From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "David Burström" <davidburstrom@spotify.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug or unexpected behaviour in git show <rev>:a\b
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:27:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk15gzmc8.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200124190119.GB1672342@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:01:19 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> So everything is working as designed, or at least explainable. But I
> think there is some room for improvement. A backslash that isn't
> followed by a glob meta-character _is_ still a meta character (your
> "a\b" would be globbing for "ab"). But it's useless enough that I think
> it shouldn't be enough to trigger the "oh, you probably meant this as a
> pathspec" DWIM rule.
This sounds sensible.
> We _could_ also say "even though this could technically be a pathspec
> because of its metacharacter, it looks vaguely enough like a
> path-in-tree revision that we shouldn't guess". That I'm less
> comfortable with, just because it makes the heuristics even more
> magical.
Not just it becomes more magical, I am afraid that the code to
implement such a heuristics would be fragile and become a source of
unnecessary bugs. Let's not go there.
I should learn to use "working as designed or at least explainable"
more often in my responses, by the way. That's quite a useful and
good phrase ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-24 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-24 12:45 Bug or unexpected behaviour in git show <rev>:a\b David Burström
2020-01-24 19:01 ` Jeff King
2020-01-24 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-01-25 0:00 ` Jeff King
2020-01-25 13:21 ` David Burström
2020-01-27 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-25 0:05 ` Jeff King
2020-01-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] t1400: avoid "test" string comparisons Jeff King
2020-01-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] t1506: drop space after redirection operator Jeff King
2020-01-25 0:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] sha1-name: mark get_oid() error messages for translation Jeff King
2020-01-29 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-29 21:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-30 7:17 ` Jeff King
2020-01-30 19:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-31 0:15 ` Jeff King
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